In the nineteenth century Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any other book in the world except the Bible.
See John MacKay, True Songs of Freedom: “Uncle Tom's Cabin” in Russian Culture and Society (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013). 52. Mary Louise Pratt, “Arts of the Contact Zone,” Profession, 1991, 37. 53.
Its historical impact was so great that it spawned the mythical story that Abraham Lincoln, upon meeting Stowe near the start of the Civil War, was heard to say, ""So this is the little lady who started this great war.""
This edition features a new introduction by Charles Johnson, winner of the National Book Award for his 1990 novel "Middle Passage.
When Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852, it became an international blockbuster, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United States alone in its first year.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. occasionally stopped and looked at her. "Takes it hard, rather," he soliloquized, "but quiet, tho'; —let her sweat a while; she'll come right, by and by!" Tom had watched the whole transaction from first to last, ...
An overview of the novel features a biographical sketch of the author, a list of characters, a summary of the plot, and critical and analytical views of the work.
Discusses the impact of Stowe's cultural and historical landmark, Uncle Tom's Cabin, not only on the abolitionist movement and the American Civil War, but on events worldwide including the end of serfdom in Russia and 20th-century events. ...
Her basic question remains penetrating even today: "Is man ever a creature to be trusted with wholly irresponsible power?" Uncle Tom's Cabin is an American classic that every American should read.
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